Posts tagged with "Nosferatu"

Watch this and tell us you’re not freaked out. The Witch has had critics raving about it ever since it was shown as the Sundance Festival, and now the trailer reveals why. There are a lot of superlative quotes plastering the trailer but for once they don’t seem like hyperbole: this has to one of the most effectively creepy trailers ever. It seems to be in the tradition of films like Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man – which can only be...

Robert Eggers, director of the stylish horror The Witch – not yet on general release but which received a critical thumbs up at Sundance this year – is set to direct a remake seminal 1922 German horror movie Nosferatu.
Director FW Murnau’s silent classic was an early screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though thoroughly unofficial. Murnau changed the names and locations but Stoker’s estate wasn’t fooled. The film became enmeshed...

As part of the BFI‘s current Gothic season, a panel discussion took place on Monday 4th November featuring guests from some of TV’s most exciting and innovative recent supernatural series.
Panelists included writers Toby Whithouse and Dominic Mitchell (Being Human and In The Flesh), director Farren Blackburn (The Fades) and actors Damien Molony, Lily Loveless and Anthony Head (Being Human, The Fades and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Introduced...